FRANK ZAPPA - "CRUISING WITH RUBEN & THE JETS" (OOP LP)

	£		35
	$		46

FRANK ZAPPA and the MOTHERS OF INVENTION
"CRUISING WITH RUBEN & THE JETS"

RARE ORIGINAL PRESSING!!!

“Cruising with Ruben and the Jets”

Cruising With Ruben & The Jets is an album by Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention, released in 1968, and controversially reissued
in an alternate mix with newly recorded bass and percussion in 1984. The album is fashioned as a simultaneous parody of and tribute to
the doo-wop music Frank and many of the Mothers grew up with and worked on. The album has been described as a collision of high
and low art, with Stravinsky-style chord changes and unusual tempos applied to purposely trite and banal teenage pop love songs.
The backing vocals at the end of "Fountain of Love", for instance, sing the opening melody from Stravinsky's Rite of Spring.
The album predated a mini-revival of 1950's rock music styles and touched off the Rock and Roll revival movement. Soon after it came out the
group Sha-Na-Na formed in New York City to play their own brand of 1950's style doo-wop. Chuck Berry and Elvis Presley relaunched their
careers not long after the album was released. Bo Diddley announced "I'm back and I'm feelin' fine" in his comeback single Bo Diddley 1969.

In 1973, a real doo-wop band, consisting of Ruben Guevara, Tony Duran, Robert “Frog” Camarena, Johnny Martinez, Robert “Buffalo” Roberts,
Bill Wild, and Bob Zamora approached Zappa to ask him if they could use the name "Ruben and the Jets" for their band. Zappa not only
approved of the name, he produced the band's first album, which was titled For Real!, a direct reference to the 1968 Mothers album with
the "fake" Ruben & The Jets. (Check out my other items for this record!). In 1984, Zappa, unhappy with the sound quality of Cruising
with Ruben & the Jets, enlisted Arthur Barrow and Chad Wackerman to re-record the original bass and drum parts (although they
were not credited) for the Old Masters Box One re-issue of the album. In addition to the new drums and bass, Zappa added
several vocal overdubs and heavily remixed the album, resulting in what has been described as "a whole new album" like
Zappa's remix of We’re Only in it for the Money, which was prepared at around the same time, it is very controversial among fan.
All post-1984 reissues of the album have featured the remix. The 1968 version of the album with the original bass and drum parts has not been
officially rereleased on CD, although bootlegs have surfaced. A mono version of the album was released in England 1969 (Verve VLP. 9237)
together with the original stereo, but since MGM at about that time decided to halt their distribution of Verve in the UK, very few copies
found their way to the shops. This mono edition was a reduction of the stereo mix rather than a special mono mix.

This is the original 1968 issue. This is an extremely rare and hard to find record!
The cover shows some wear and tear, but the vinyl is in GOOD condition…
Overall this record is in VERY GOOD condition…

If you are a fan or a collector of rare Zappa records, or other rarities, don’t miss this one!!!

 
SIDE A:
- Cheap Thrills
- Love Of My Life
- How Could I Be Such A Fool
- Deseri
- I’m Not Satisfied
- Jelly Roll Gum Drop
- Anything

SIDE B:
- Later That Night
- You Didn’t Try To Call Me
- Fountain Of Love
- “No, No, No”
- Anyway The Wind Blows
- Stuff Up The Cracks


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